Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman is seen at the Los Angeles premiere
of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," at Nokia Theatre LA Live on
Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.

The Academy Award-winning actor was found dead in his
apartment in New York City on

Sunday, February 2, 2014, of an apparent drug overdose,
according to the New York Police Department. He was 46.

By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan

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"Capote"

Born in 1967 in
Fairport, New York, Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age, mesmerized
at 12 by a local production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." He
studied theater as a teenager, then majored in drama at New York University.

In his Oscar
acceptance speech for "Capote" (pictured left), he thanked his mother
for raising him and his three siblings alone, and for taking him to his first
play. Hoffman's parents divorced when he was 9.

Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

"Boogie Nights"

Hoffman's first onscreen acting
job was as a drug dealer defendant in "Law and Order." He played a
prep school student in the Al Pacino film, "Scent of a Woman," and
was in the cast of "Boogie Nights" (left), Paul Thomas
Anderson's 1997 drama about the pornographic film industry. It would be one of
several Anderson films in which Hoffman starred.

Credit: New Line Cinema

"The Big Lebowski"

Philip Seymour Hoffman played the personal assistant of Jeffrey Lebowski - not THAT Lebowski - opposite Jeff Bridges as The Dude, in the Coen Brothers comedy, "The Big Lebowski" (1998).

"Magnolia"

"State & Main"

In David Mamet's "State & Main" (2000), about a film shoot in a New England town, resident Rebecca Pidgeon plays a resident who offers inspiration to screenwriter Philip Seymour Hoffman trying to write his way out of an increasingly troubled production.

"Almost Famous"

"Red Dragon"

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harvey Keitel and Ed Norton starred in "Red Dragon" (2002), a prequel to "The Silence of the Lambs," which explored the origins of Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter.

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"The 25th Hour"

Ed Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman and director Spike Lee on the set of the drama "The 25th Hour" (2002).

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"Along Came Polly"

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ben
Stiller in "Along Came Polly" (2004).

Some actors look like Hollywood
stars no matter whom they play. Not Hoffman. "Yeah, I just try to look the
way that the part is supposed to look," he told "Sunday Morning"'s Mo Rocca in 2012. "And I think most people don't look put together in normal life. For
most people, their hair is a little uncomfortable. Unless they are people who
have jobs and are in front of the camera, most people are kind of walking
around looking like people."

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"Capote"

In "Capote" (2005), Philip Seymour
Hoffman stared as writer Truman Capote researching the notorious murders that
would form the spine of his greatest success, the true-live crime novel,
"In Cold Blood."

Hoffman told Mo Rocca that he resisted the role of Capote at
first: "I'm very far away from him in so many ways. I'm like 5'10", and
I weigh like 230. You know, I'm a big guy. And that was the least of it. It was
really just, was I going to be able to understand and pull it off? I was just
concerned about that.

"And then eventually I go, 'All
right, let's just do it.' And then you kind of realize that your gut leads the
way and you trust that. And that's what I did."

Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

"Mission Impossible III"

Philip Seymour Hoffman gets the drop on Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of whom is a black market kingpin, the other a secret agent, in "Mission Impossible III" (2006).

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"The Savages"

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney as
siblings coping with a father suffering from dementia in "The
Savages" (2007) - and it was hard
to believe the two weren't related.
"There`s something about us that was like siblings, an immediate trust,
quirkiness, and a similar sense of humor," Hoffman said. "It was as
if we had experienced similar things growing up that formed us."

Credit: Fox Searchlight

"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"

"Charlie Wilson's War"

Philip Seymour Hoffman played Gust
Avrakotos, a CIA agent who becomes instrumental in a plan by a U.S Congressman
(Tom Hanks) to fund Afghan rebel fighters, in "Charlie Wilson's War"
(2007), from director Mike Nichols. Hoffmann received his second Academy Award
nomination for his performance.

Credit: Universal Pictures

"Synecdoche, New York"

In "Synecdoche, New York" (2008), written and directed by Charles Kauffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman played an author who embarks on a years-long theatre project that deconstructs events and people in his life. The film mixed dream states and theatricality with a hyper-realism that captured a tortured writer's soul.

Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

"Doubt"

Philip Seymour Hoffman with Amy Adams in "Doubt." Hoffman earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a Catholic priest suspected of child abuse.

Credit: Miramax

"Doubt"

Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier and Philip Seymour
Hoffman as Father Flynn in "Doubt" (2008), directed by playwright
John Patrick Shanley.

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"Max & Mary"

For the stop-motion animated film "Max & Mary" (2009), Philip Seymour Hoffman voiced the character of Max, a rather morbidly obese and anxiety-prone New Yorker who strikes up a pen-pal relationship with an Australian girl.

"Jack Goes Boating"

"The Ides of March"

Philip Seymour Hoffman played the campaign manager of George Clooney's presidential candidate in the 2011 drama, "The Ides of March."

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"Moneyball"

Philip Seymour Hoffmann starred as A's manager Art Howe, who resists the front office's efforts to micro-manage the team's lineup card -- by numbers-crunchers, no less -- in the Oscar-nominated "Moneyball" (2011).

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"Death of A Salesman"

In this March 15, 2012 file photo, actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield appear at the curtain call for the opening night performance of the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman" in New York.

Credit: AP Photo/Charles Sykes

"The Master"

Philip Seymour Hoffman as a cult leader in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" (2012). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Credit: The Weinstein Company

"The Master"

Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman in a scene from Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master."

Credit: The Weinstein Company

"The Master"

Philip Seymour Hoffman attends "The Master" premiere during the 69th Venice Film Festival at the Palazzo del Cinema on Sept. 1, 2012, in Venice, Italy. He and costar Joaquin Phoenix shared the festival's Best Actor prize.

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"

Hoffman was due to
reprise that role in the two-part sequel, "The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay," which was already in production.

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Sundance Film Festival

Willem Dafoe, Rachel
McAdams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, of the film "A Most Wanted Man,"
pose for a portrait during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at the WireImage
Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift on January 19, 2014 in Park City,
Utah.

In addition to
"A Most Wanted Man," another film featuring Hoffman, "God's
Pocket," also premiered at Sundance.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a 2006 interview with "60 Minutes," Hoffman
told Steve Kroft that he went into rehab at a very early age - 22 - because he
feared his substance abuse would kill him – and he had so much he still wanted to
do.

Last May, after more than two decades clean and sober, Hoffman
reportedly checked himself into rehab.

Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment on
Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.